Anyone have VPN recommendations?
I usually point people to this:
http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-revie...
As a former privacy VPN operator I can tell you its extremely hard to operate one securely.
Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
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#12Anyone knows a better alternative to luminati.io? We've been using it in our company but it feels expensive.
I thought this thread may be good place to ask for an alternative.
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#14Anyone have VPN recommendations?
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#15This is basically why you never want to use a proprietary client with any VPN service, you don't know what you're getting into at all. At least with PPtP/L2TP/OpenVPN based services you can use well known clients or OS vendor provided clients that are unlikely to have little goodies like this.
Hola explicitly say this is why they're able to offer the service for free http://hola.org/faq#in_how_is_free
dchuk beat me to it!
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#16Anyone have VPN recommendations?
I usually point people to this: http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-revie... As a former privacy VPN operator I can tell you its extremely hard to operate one securely.
There is no such thing as total security, there is only what we know and then what we do not know.
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#17that's sneaky and some one needs to point out for this!
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#18They explicitly state in their FAQ how this works and why their service is able to be free: http://hola.org/faq#in_how_is_free They even have a non-free option that eliminates the VPN as a proxy feature. "Hola built a peer to peer overlay network for HTTP, which securely routes the sites you choose through other Hola users' devices and not through expensive servers. Hola never takes up valuable resources from these u…
And that somehow makes what they're doing OK?
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#19This made me laugh--I wonder how many innocent people are going to have the FBI kick their doors down for things that past through their "exit nodes" that they hosted.